Dr. Amir Pakdel
Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Manuf & Biomedical Eng
Biography
Dr. Amir Pakdel is a transdisciplinary nanomaterials scientist and nanotechnologist, an assistant professor and a research group leader at Trinity College Dublin's Department of Mechanical, Manufacturing & Biomedical Engineering. He has previously worked in University College Dublin's School of Chemistry (Ireland), Trinity College Dublin's Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices (CRANN; Ireland), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS; Japan), and World Premier International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA; Japan).
He has investigated diverse and crossdisciplinary research topics, including:
● Thermal energy harvesting and storage ● Flexible, wearable, and printable electronics ● Nanomaterials synthesis and characterization (especial interest in electron microscopy & spectroscopy techniques) ● Metal- ceramic- and polymer-matrix composites ● Functional and hierarchical surfaces ● Surface wetting ● Sustainability
Amir has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed publications, and is an editorial board member of Frontiers in Chemistry, MDPI Energies, AIMS Materials Science, and a guest editor in MDPI Molecules and MDPI Catalysts.
For more information about Dr. Pakdel and his research, please visit: https://pakdelgroup.weebly.com/
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
M.Jabri, S.Masoumi, F.Sajadirad, R.P.West, A.Pakdel, Thermoelectric conversion in buildings, Material Today Energy, 2023
Angizi, S. and Alem, S.A.A. and Hasanzadeh Azar, M. and Shayeganfar, F. and Manning, M.I. and Hatamie, A. and Pakdel, A. and Simchi, A., A comprehensive review on planar boron nitride nanomaterials: From 2D nanosheets towards 0D quantum dots, Progress in Materials Science, 124, (100884), 2022
Anirudh Sharma, Saeed Masoumi, Desta Gedefaw, Seamus O'Shaughnessy, Derya Baran, Amir Pakdel, Flexible solar and thermal energy conversion devices: Organic photovoltaics (OPVs), organic thermoelectric generators (OTEGs) and hybrid PV-TEG systems, Applied Materials Today, 29, 2022, p101614
Masoumi Saeed, O'Shaughnessy Seamus, Pakdel Amir, Organic-based flexible thermoelectric generators: From materials to devices, Nano Energy, 92, 2022, p106774-
Pakdel, A. and Khan, A.U. and Pawula, F. and Hébert, S. and Mori, T., Effect of Bi Nanoprecipitates on the Thermoelectric Properties of Bi-Sb-Te/Sb2O3 Nanocomposites, Advanced Materials Interfaces, 9, (24), 2022
Masoumi, S. and Pakdel, A., Nanoengineering Approaches to Tune Thermal and Electrical Conductivity of a BiSbTe Thermoelectric Alloy, Advanced Engineering Materials, 24, (1), 2022
Lokhande, P.E. and Pakdel, A. and Pathan, H.M. and Kumar, D. and Vo, D.-V.N. and Al-Gheethi, A. and Sharma, A. and Goel, S. and Singh, P.P. and Lee, B.-K., Prospects of MXenes in energy storage applications, Chemosphere, 297, (134225), 2022
Shayan Angizi, Sayed Ali Ahmad Alem, Amir Pakdel, Towards Integration of Two-Dimensional Hexagonal Boron Nitride (2D h-BN) in Energy Conversion and Storage Devices, Energies, 15, (3), 2022, p1162
Mohamed Barakat Zakaria Hegazy, Mohamed Reda Berber, Yusuke Yamauchi, Amir Pakdel, Rui Cao, Ulf-Peter Apfel, Synergistic Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution in Ni/NiS Nanoparticles Wrapped in Multi-Heteroatom-Doped Reduced Graphene Oxide Nanosheets, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 13, (29), 2021, p34043--34052
G. Prunet, F. Pawula, G. Fleury, E. Cloutet, A.J. Robinson, G. Hadziioannou, A. Pakdel, A review on conductive polymers and their hybrids for flexible and wearable thermoelectric applications, Materials Today Physics, 18, 2021, p100402
Chuanfang (John) Zhang, Meiying Liang, Sang-Hoon Park, Zifeng Lin, Andrés Seral-Ascaso, Longlu Wang, Amir Pakdel, Cormac Ó Coileáin, John Boland, Oskar Ronan, Niall McEvoy, Bingan Lu, Yonggang Wang, Yongyao Xia, Jonathan N. Coleman, Valeria Nicolosi, Extra lithium-ion storage capacity enabled by liquid-phase exfoliated indium selenide nanosheets conductive network, Energy & Environmental Science, 2020
Shayan Angizi, Maryam Khalaj, Sayed Ali Ahmad Alem, Amir Pakdel, Magnus Willander, Amir Hatamie, Abdolreza Simchi, Review"Towards the Two-Dimensional Hexagonal Boron Nitride (2D h-BN) Electrochemical Sensing Platforms, Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 2020
Marquez, Ariana Villarroel, McEvoy, Niall, Pakdel, Amir, Organic Electrochemical Transistors (OECTs) Toward Flexible and Wearable Bioelectronics, Molecules, 25, (22), 2020, p5288
Flavien Sciortino, Sajjad Husain Mir, Amir Pakdel, Oruganti Anjaneyulu, Hideki Abe, Agnieszka Witecka, Dayangku Noorfazidah Awang Shri, Gaulthier Rydzek, Katsuhiko Ariga, Saloplastics as multiresponsive ion exchange reservoirs and catalyst support, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2020
Zhang, C. and Ma, Y. and Zhang, X. and Abdolhosseinzadeh, S. and Sheng, H. and Lan, W. and Pakdel, A. and Heier, J. and NÃŒesch, F., Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Carbides and Nitrides (MXenes): Synthesis, Properties, and Electrochemical Energy Storage Applications, Energy and Environmental Materials, 3, (1), 2020, p29-55
Energies, Basel, Switzerland, MDPI, 2020
Catalysts, Basel, Switzerland, MDPI, 2020-2021
Energies, Basel, Switzerland, MDPI, 2020-2023
Molecules, Basel, Switzerland, MDPI, 2020-2022
Organic Polymers, Oligomers and Catalysis in, editor(s)Qingmin Ji, Harald Fuchs , Soft Matters for Catalysts, Singapore, Jenny Stanford Publishing, 2019, pp173 - 228, [Gaulthier Rydzek, Amir Pakdel]
Frontiers in Chemistry, Lausanne, Switzerland, Frontiers Media, 2019
Amir Pakdel, Quansheng Guo, Valeria Nicolosi, Takao Mori, Enhanced thermoelectric performance of Bi"Sb"Te/Sb2O3 nanocomposites by energy filtering effect, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 6, 2018, p21341 - 21349
Rydzek G, Pakdel A, Witecka A, Awang Shri D.N, GaudiÚre F, Nicolosi V, Mokarian-Tabari P, Schaaf P, Boulmedais F, Ariga K, PH-Responsive Saloplastics Based on Weak Polyelectrolytes: From Molecular Processes to Material Scale Properties, Macromolecules, 51, (12), 2018, p4424 - 4434
Amir Pakdel, Agnieszka Witecka, Gaulthier Rydzek, Dayangku Noorfazidah Awang Shri, Valeria Nicolosi, A comprehensive analysis of extrusion behavior, microstructural evolution, and mechanical properties of 6063 Al"B 4 C composites produced by semisolid stir casting, Materials Science and Engineering: A, 2018
Tang, H. and Li, W. and Pan, L. and Cullen, C.P. and Liu, Y. and Pakdel, A. and Long, D. and Yang, J. and Mcevoy, N. and Duesberg, G.S. and Nicolosi, V. and Zhang, C.J., In Situ Formed Protective Barrier Enabled by Sulfur at Titanium Carbide (MXene) Ink for Achieving High-Capacity, Long Lifetime Li-S Batteries, Advanced Science, 2018, p1800502-
Atta Ullah Khan, Rabih Al Rahal Al Orabi, Amir Pakdel, Jean-Baptiste Vaney, Bruno Fontaine, Regis Gautier, Jean-Francois Halet, Seiji Mitani, Takao Mori, Sb Doping of Metallic CuCr2S4 as a Route to Highly Improved Thermoelectric Properties, Chemistry of Materials, 2017
Amir Pakdel, Agnieszka Witecka, Gaulthier Rydzek, Dayangku Noorfazidah Awang Shri, A comprehensive microstructural analysis of Al"WC micro- and nano-composites prepared by spark plasma sintering, Materials & Design, 119, 2017, p225--234
Yanming Xue, Pengcheng Dai, Min Zhou, Xi Wang, Amir Pakdel, Chao Zhang, Qunhong Weng, Toshiaki Takei, Xiuwei Fu, Zakhar I. Popov, Pavel B. Sorokin, Chengchun Tang, Kiyoshi Shimamura, Yoshio Bando, Dmitri Golberg, Multifunctional Superelastic Foam-Like Boron Nitride Nanotubular Cellular-Network Architectures, ACS Nano, 11, (1), 2017, p558--568
Noelia M. Sanchez-Ballester, Gaulthier Rydzek, Amir Pakdel, Anjaneyulu Oruganti, Kotone Hasegawa, Masanori Mitome, Dmitri Golberg, Jonathan P. Hill, Hideki Abe, Katsuhiko Ariga, Nanostructured polymeric yolk"shell capsules: a versatile tool for hierarchical nanocatalyst design, J. Mater. Chem. A, 4, (25), 2016, p9850--9857
Yanming Xue, Pengcheng Dai, Xiangfen Jiang, Xuebin Wang, Chao Zhang, Daiming Tang, Qunhong Weng, Xi Wang, Amir Pakdel, Chengchun Tang, Yoshio Bando, Dmitri Golberg, Template-free synthesis of boron nitride foam-like porous monoliths and their high-end applications in water purification, J. Mater. Chem. A, 4, (4), 2016, p1469--1478
Amir Pakdel; Takao Mori; Yoshio Bando; Dmitri Golberg, Interface engineering of bio-inspired Boron nitride nano-architectures toward controllable hydrophobicity/hydrophilicity, 10th IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems, China, IEEE, 2015
Nanoboron Nitrides in, editor(s)Ying (Ian) Chen , Nanotubes and Nanosheets: Functionalization and Applications of Boron Nitride and Other Nanomaterials, Taylor & Francis Group, CRC Press, 2015, pp3 - 32, [Amir Pakdel, Yoshio Bando, Dmitri Golberg]
Rydzek, Gaulthier, Terentyeva, Tatyana G., Pakdel, Amir, Golberg, Dmitri, Hill, Jonathan P., Ariga, Katsuhiko, Simultaneous Electropolymerization and Electro-Click Functionalization for Highly Versatile Surface Platforms, Acs Nano, 8, (5), 2014, p5240-5248
Amir Pakdel, Yoshio Bando, Dmitri Golberg, ChemInform Abstract: Nano Boron Nitride Flatland, ChemInform, 45, (16), 2014, pno--no
Pakdel, Amir, Bando, Yoshio, Golberg, Dmitri, Nano boron nitride flatland, Chemical Society Reviews, 43, (3), 2014, p934-959
Amir Pakdel, Yoshio Bando, Dmitri Golberg, Plasma-Assisted Interface Engineering of Boron Nitride Nanostructure Films, ACS Nano, 8, (10), 2014, p10631--10639
Amir Pakdel, Yoshio Bando, Dmitry Shtansky, Dmitri Golberg, Nonwetting and optical properties of BN nanosheet films, Surface Innovations, 1, (1), 2013, p32--39
Pakdel, Amir, Wang, Xuebin, Bando, Yoshio, Golberg, Dmitri, Nonwetting "white graphene" films, Acta Materialia, 61, (4), 2013, p1266-1273
Yamaguchi, Maho, Pakdel, Amir, Zhi, Chunyi, Bando, Yoshio, Tang, Dai-Ming, Faerstein, Konstantin, Shtansky, Dmitry, Golberg, Dmitri, Utilization of multiwalled boron nitride nanotubes for the reinforcement of lightweight aluminum ribbons, Nanoscale Research Letters, 8, 2013
Pakdel, Amir, Bando, Yoshio, Golberg, Dmitri, Morphology-Driven Nonwettability of Nanostructured BN Surfaces, Langmuir, 29, (24), 2013, p7529-7533
Wang, Xuebin, Pakdel, Amir, Zhi, Chunyi, Watanabe, Kentaro, Sekiguchi, Takashi, Golberg, Dmitri, Bando, Yoshio, High-yield boron nitride nanosheets from 'chemical blowing': towards practical applications in polymer composites, Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter, 24, (31), 2012
Pakdel, Amir, Zhi, Chunyi, Bando, Yoshio, Nakayama, Tomonobu, Golberg, Dmitri, A comprehensive analysis of the CVD growth of boron nitride nanotubes, Nanotechnology, 23, (21), 2012
Pakdel, Amir, Wang, Xuebin, Zhi, Chunyi, Bando, Yoshio, Watanabe, Kentaro, Sekiguchi, Takashi, Nakayama, Tomonobu, Golberg, Dmitri, Facile synthesis of vertically aligned hexagonal boron nitride nanosheets hybridized with graphitic domains, Journal of Materials Chemistry, 22, (11), 2012, p4818-4824
Amir Pakdel, Chunyi Zhi, Yoshio Bando, Tomonobu Nakayama, Dmitri Golberg, Nonwetting behavior of “white” graphene coatings, Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO), England , 2012, IEEE, 2012
Amir Pakdel, Synthesis, characterization, and properties of 1D and 2D boron nitride nanostructure films, University of Tsukuba (Japan), 2012
Wang, Xuebin, Pakdel, Amir, Zhang, Jun, Weng, Qunhong, Zhai, Tianyou, Zhi, Chunyi, Golberg, Dmitri, Bando, Yoshio, Large-surface-area BN nanosheets and their utilization in polymeric composites with improved thermal and dielectric properties, Nanoscale Research Letters, 7, 2012
Amir Pakdel, Chunyi Zhi, Yoshio Bando, Dmitri Golberg, Low-dimensional boron nitride nanomaterials, Materials Today, 15, (6), 2012, p256--265
AIMS Materials Science, United States of America, AIMS Press, 2012
Amir Pakdel, Hassan Farhangi, Masoud Emamy, Influence of Hot Extrusion Process on the Mechanical Behavior of AA6061/SIC Composites, Advanced Materials Research, 264-265, 2011, p141--148
Pakdel, Amir, Zhi, Chunyi, Bando, Yoshio, Nakayama, Tomonobu, Golberg, Dmitri, Boron Nitride Nanosheet Coatings with Controllable Water Repellency, Acs Nano, 5, (8), 2011, p6507-6515
Pakdel, Amir, Farhangi, Hassan, INFLUENCE OF EXTRUSION RATIO ON THE MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF AA6061/SIC COMPOSITES, Arabian Journal For Science and Engineering, 34, (1C), 2009, p167-174
Amir Pakdel, Improvement of Mechanical Properties of Aluminum 6061-SiC Composites by Extrusion Process, University of Tehran (Iran), 2007
Research Expertise
Description
Sustainable energy harvesting; Thermoelectricity; Thermal management; Flexible electronics; Nanomaterilas; Nanocomposites; Nanotechnology; Ceramics; Metals & alloys; Semiconductors; Materials characterisation; Electron microscopy; Powder Processing; Surfaces & Interfaces; Thin films; Superhydrophobicity; Water treatment.Projects
- Title
- Flexible Nano-Thermoelectrics for Body Energy Harvesting
- Funding Agency
- Science Foundation Ireland (SFI, Ireland)
- Date From
- 2020
- Date To
- 2024
- Title
- Boron Nitride Nanomaterials for Next-Generation Lithium-Ion Batteries
- Funding Agency
- Enterprise Ireland (EI, Ireland)
- Date From
- 2021
- Date To
- 2023
- Title
- Electrospinning of thermoelectric nanofibers for smart clothing applications
- Funding Agency
- China Scholarship Council
- Date From
- 2021
- Date To
- 2025
- Title
- Novel Catalytic Materials for CO2 Utilization
- Funding Agency
- European Commission & Irish Research Council
- Date From
- 2023
- Date To
- 2026
- Title
- Developing Novel 2D and 3D Defect-Free Cyano-Bridged Coordination Polymers-based Carbon/MXene Materials for Next-Generation Sodium-Ion Batteries and Electrochemical Applications
- Funding Agency
- Irish Research Council (IRC, Ireland)
- Date From
- 2020
- Date To
- 2022
- Title
- 3D phase change behavior on nanoscale functional surfaces for aluminum thermosiphon applications
- Funding Agency
- Industry
- Date From
- 2021
- Date To
- 2023
- Title
- Advanced Single and Two Phase Heat Exchangers for Electronics Cooling and Energy Management
- Funding Agency
- Science Foundation Ireland - CONNECT Centre
- Date From
- 2022
- Date To
- 2025
- Title
- Nanomaterials-Based Flexible Thermoelectric Films
- Funding Agency
- Enterprise Ireland (EI, Ireland)
- Date From
- 2018
- Date To
- 2019
- Title
- Synthesis of Novel 2D Nanosystems and their Thermoelectric Energy Conversion Application
- Funding Agency
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS, Japan)
- Date From
- 2014
- Date To
- 2016
- Title
- Functionalization of Boron Nitride Nanostructures towards Superhydrophobic Oleophilic Surfaces for Water Treatment and Biomedical Applications
- Funding Agency
- World Premier International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA, Japan)
- Date From
- 2012
- Date To
- 2015
- Title
- Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications of 1D and 2D Boron Nitride Nanomaterials
- Funding Agency
- National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS, Japan)
- Date From
- 2009
- Date To
- 2012
Recognition
Awards and Honours
Science Foundation Ireland - Starting Investigator Research Grant (SFI-SIRG)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship
International Centre for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA) Fellowship
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) Scholarship
Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) Award
Tsukuba Expo Center Award
Memberships
European Materials Research Society
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
WPI Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA)
The Japan Society of Vacuum and Surface Science
Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP)
Iranian Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Society